Students group clashes over India's T20 defeat forces authorities to shut down Srinagar NIT

Students group clashes over India's T20 defeat forces authorities to shut down Srinagar NIT

Keeping in view the clashes between local Kashmiri students and
non-local students over India's defeat in semifinal clash with West
Indies on Thursday March 31, night in the ongoing T20 World Cup, the
authorities were forced to shut down the National Institute of
Technology (NIT) till further orders.

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New Delhi

April 2, 2016

UPDATED: April 2, 2016 11:26 IST

Clashes between student group forces authorities to shutdown NIT Srinagar

Keeping in view the clashes between local Kashmiri students and non-local students over India's defeat in semifinal clash with West Indies on Thursday March 31, night in the ongoing T20 World Cup, the authorities were forced to shut down the National Institute of Technology (NIT) till further orders.

According to PTI, one of the local student revealed that the non-Kashmiri students were irked by the celebrations witnessed in Kashmir on Thursday night following India's defeat.

"The non-local students, being in majority in the NIT, just picked up a fight with local students and thrashed few of them," alleged the student, who did not wish to be named.

The NIT, earlier known as the Regional Engineering College, has nearly 2500 students and 400 academic staff members.

"There was an unruly situation on campus and we thought it provident to shut down the campus till further orders as a precautionary measure," an official of the NIT said.

He said that some altercation between local and non-local students led to sloganeering.

The NIT authorities have asked all the students to vacate the hostels but have not evicted them yet, the official said.

The decision to close down the campus will be reviewed from time to time.

"As and when we feel that the situation has returned to normalcy, the order will be revoked," he added.

Although many students have left the hostel, some students are still staying in their rooms, a local student said.